Become a UX Designerin 10 weeks

The User Experience Design Immersive program is crafted by top practitioners in the field, with a specific focus on helping you transition into a UX design career.

Learn From UX Experts

Attend classes designed and taught by some of the industry’s best UX designers.

Build Your Portfolio

Apply your UX skills across five class projects and build a working portfolio.

Get A UX Job

Become an apprentice or junior UX designer.

Career Support

We provide each of our immersive graduates with job readiness training, connections to employers, and opportunities to hone new skills.

JobPreparation

Build a strong portfolio and resume with support and feedback.

Train for interviews and salary negotiation.

CareerResources

Visit local UX design companies.

Participate in expert panel discussions.

NetworkingOpportunities

Engage with our global network of companies.

Showcase your work at Meet & Greets.

Former Account Director

Candace Majedi

UXDI

Interaction Designer, Fjord

“UXDI helped me define my personal strengths as a designer and gave me the confidence to change careers completely. I knew this was what I wanted to do because I was actually doing it day in, day out.”

Companies who’ve hired our UXDI alumni

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The immersive format and rigorous curriculum will give students the skills, tools, and experience they need to thrive in their first UX position.

Luke Miller / Full-time Instructor, General Assembly

Student Life

Through presentations, discussions, and interactive lessons, we break up our daily schedule to give students a well-rounded understanding of the field.

9am

Class

Interaction Design

Learn key objectives through lectures, discussions, and activities.

Learn key objectives through lectures, discussions, and activities.

12pm

Lunch

Review Session

Review morning lessons and labs.
(optional)

Review morning lessons and labs.

(optional)

1pm

Workshop

Design Session & Feedback

Practice new skills, work on group projects, and receive extra help from instructors.

Practice new skills, work on group projects, and receive extra help from instructors.

Social

What I appreciated most about this course was the relevancy- from day one we were exposed to real design challenges, and we were taught to use industry standard software to design eloquent solutions.

Ahna Rao / Intern, FuseProject

What You’ll Learn

We teach core skills that make up the entire user experience design process. From research and ideation to prototyping and testing, our user experience design training will help you solve design problems using proven skills and methods.

User Research

Understand how users interact with your product through methods like interviewing, observation, and testing. This allows you to create a product that fits your users’ needs.

Interaction & Interface Design

Define the way your digital product interacts with users in order to make it simple, user-friendly, and beautiful. This allows you to create a product that people love to use.

Prototyping & Testing

Create interactive prototypes to test your designs and ideas in front of real users. Iterate and evolve your concepts into a digital product. This allows you to create a product that actually works.

Working with Teams & Clients

Collaborate with fellow designers, stakeholders, clients, and real users to solve design problems and create real products. This allows you to enter the UX job market as a designer.

Build Your Portfolio

Enter the UX job market with a portfolio composed of five unique projects. You’ll have the opportunity to create real work for a real company with a small team of your peers. Check out a past student project.

Brief

GoCatch is a mobile application that connects taxi drivers directly with passengers across Australia. We conducted an end to end review of the booking process for both the passenger and the driver.

Solution

GoCatch should aim for an extremely simple application that allows passengers to book a cab in one screen and allows drivers to accept jobs in one click. As a team we recognized that the main pain points were related to three problem areas: barrier to enter, passenger wait time, and call between the passenger and the driver.

Process

User Flow

We analyzed the user flows on both the passenger and driver side, and identified the pain points, opportunities, and possible solutions.

Ideas and Wireframing

Every member of the team sketched the screens for the path we defined. Then, organized the best solutions in one set of sketches.

Usability Testing

We set the recruitment brief, wrote the script for the interviews, and created interactive prototypes to test the passenger ideal path and our new ideas.

Team

Deepa Dhupalia

Michael Shai Hee

Sara Michelazzo

Suhasini Vempati

Meet Your Instructors

Learn from skilled design professionals from a variety of industry backgrounds, from agencies to startups, freelancers to founders.

Get Answers

We love questions, almost as much as we love providing answers. Here are a few samplings of what we’re typically asked, along with our responses:

Why is this course relevant today?

What separates a good product from a great product — an app that jumps to a user’s home page rather than getting pushed to the back of a folder, or a website that people can’t wait to share with their friends and family — is user experience. User Experience Designers constantly analyze the world around them in a never-ending quest to bring joy, simplicity, and function to everyday experiences. The User Experience Design Immersive aims to get students to think like designers, and equip them with the skills and tools necessary to implement their vision.

The field of User Experience Design is also growing rapidly, and there’s never been a better time to find a job in UX.

What practical skill sets can I expect to have upon completion of the course?

By the end of this intensive course, you will be able to:

Implement user research tactics to gain a deeper understanding of what users need and want.

Identify the best ways to organize information on a given site or app.

Design a digital product that behaves intuitively and brings joy and function to users.

Utilize visual design in order to make beautiful digital products.

Explain your process through the use of sketches, wireframes, and presentations.

Collaborate with design teams to see a project from start to finish.

Whom will I be sitting next to in this course?

People as passionate about great stuff as you are.

Graphic designers, creative directors, journalists, architects, entrepreneurs, and folks just out of college.

Individuals looking to enter the world of UX design professionally.

Your future best friends.

What can I expect to accomplish by the end of this course?

By the end of the course, you will have:

Created two-to-three strong pieces of work for your portfolio, including artifacts such as sketches, user research, and working prototypes.

Learned about UX techniques and strategies from the top UX practitioners currently in the field.

Networked with some of the best designers, product managers, and entrepreneurs in your local community.

Eaten at least 3 or 4 whole pizzas over the entire 10 weeks.

Worked together with incredibly talented and motivated individuals who you will stay in touch with long after the course.

What are my financing options for an immersive program?

Financial hurdles shouldn’t keep you from your goals. That’s why we collaborate with financing partners so you can focus on your goals instead of the barriers that keep you from reaching them. Note: to apply for financing, you must first be accepted into a GA program.

All Set!

We’ll notify you about the next session in your city. Until then, our admissions team will reach out to discuss our courses and your goals.

Meanwhile, we’d love to know a little more about you.

What sparked your interest in this course?

How did you learn about us?

Thank you.

Our admissions team will call you soon to chat about the course. To reach us directly, please call us at +44 2033089506 or email admissions.

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